Access authorization

You must implement a protections The permissions stored in the P4 Server protections table. User permissions can be managed with the 'p4 protect' command and the P4Admin application. scheme to prevent unauthorized or inadvertent access to files in the depot. The protections determine which P4 Server commands can be run, on which files, by whom, and from which host. You configure protections with the p4 protect command. Note that protections do not apply to forms A screen displayed by certain P4 Server commands to create a specification (spec) by assigning values to fields. For example, you use the client form to define a client workspace mappings. Commonly used forms include Branch, Change, Client, Depot, Group, Label, Server, Stream, and User. that define branches, changelists, client workspaces, labels, streams, servers, and so on.

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